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The New York City Subway tried to keep its budget balanced between spending and revenue, so deferred maintenance became more common, which drew a slow but steady decline of the system and rolling stock. Furthermore, the workers were consolidated into the Transport Workers Union in 1968. A pension was set up, and workers were allowed to retire ...
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in New York City serving the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, [14] an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). [15]
The New York City Subway is a heavy-rail public transit system serving four of the five boroughs of New York City. The present New York City Subway system inherited the systems of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). New York City has owned the IND ...
Riders on a New York City subway got more than they bargained after a small rat snuck onto a train and spent the trip climbing one of its poles, gracing onlookers with a rat stunt that is rare ...
The six-track section continues until just north of 125th Street. The express trains use the innermost pair of tracks, and the locals uses the outermost tracks. [19] This section of the line is nicknamed "Homeball Alley"—a reference to a home signal, a type of railway signal used in the New York City Subway system. [27]
At left, M train pulling into Myrtle Ave subway station with Melrose Street apartments seen just beyond the tracks, apx. 10 feet away from bedroom windows Now these are railroad apartments!
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A vintage New York City subway train will begin weaving its way across Manhattan starting Sunday and returning every Sunday through December -- transporting straphangers back 120 years.